Meet the Artist: Sue Krizman of Blue Bee Studios
Sue Krizman is the award-winning illustrator, artist, and surface pattern designer behind Blue Bee Studios. Based in Ohio, Sue creates nature-inspired artwork that combines expressive botanical forms, flowing linework, graphic structure, and thoughtfully coordinated color.
Before concentrating on illustration and surface design, Sue spent more than twenty-five years working in advertising as an art director and creative director. That professional experience continues to influence the strong composition, visual rhythm, color balance, and clear creative direction found throughout her fabric collections.
Sue begins with pencil sketches, observed natural forms, found objects, paint, and textile elements. She then develops her artwork digitally using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, preserving the personality of the original marks while refining them into clean, fluid, detailed patterns.
Her work is represented for illustration and art licensing by Lemonade Illustration Agency, and her broader creative practice includes licensed artwork for textile and home-goods applications. This product-focused experience helps Blue Bee Studios patterns translate naturally across fabric, fashion, interiors, accessories, and finished goods.
Blue Bee Studios fabrics include painterly florals, stylized botanicals, modern geometrics, stripes, plaids, and abstract coordinates for apparel, quilting, bedding, curtains, upholstery, accessories, and contemporary home décor. Every pattern is printed to order in the USA on your choice of 15+ base fabrics with a 1-yard minimum.
Nature, Narrative and Visual Storytelling
Blue Bee Studios patterns are created to communicate more than a decorative motif. Sue draws from natural forms, personal observations, memories, movement, and emotion to build artwork with a subtle narrative.
Flowers, vines, leaves, pathways, weathered textures, and structured geometric elements become visual metaphors for growth, change, connection, optimism, and the changing seasons of life. These underlying ideas give the fabrics emotional character while allowing them to remain useful and approachable for everyday sewing and decorating.
Sue balances artistic intuition with the disciplined eye of an experienced creative director. Large focal patterns are supported by quieter stripes, checks, plaids, geometrics, and textural designs, making the collections practical for coordinated rooms, quilts, garments, and groups of accessories.
Explore the Complete Blue Bee Studios Collection
Blue Bee Studios Fabric Collections
Journey to NEXT
Journey to NEXT celebrates optimism, courage, and the experience of moving toward something new while remaining connected to the past. The collection brings together expressive botanicals, stylized flowers, flowing vines, structured abstract forms, and textured coordinating patterns.
Its eight designs are organized into three coordinated color stories. Afternoon Warmth combines rich red, golden yellow, blue, and earthy accents. It’s Always Greener layers botanical greens with olive, brown, red, and gold. Open Sky uses navy, powder blue, cream, slate, and warm highlights for a cooler, airier interpretation.
The collection is especially effective for bold quilts, statement curtains, upholstered accents, decorative pillows, expressive apparel, and rooms that benefit from rich color and organic movement.
A New Day
A New Day expands the Blue Bee Studios aesthetic through painterly flowers, expressive botanicals, retro-inspired geometrics, tailored stripes, checks, scallops, textural plaids, and versatile small-scale coordinates.
The collection feels fresh and optimistic while retaining Sue’s characteristic balance of organic movement and clear visual structure. Statement florals can anchor a project, while the smaller coordinates provide options for quilt blocks, borders, linings, trim, pillow backs, and apparel details.
A New Day is available in five coordinated color directions: Bright Blush, Golden, Morning Mist, Stormy, and Sunny. The palettes range from lively rose and spring green to warm gold, calm misty blue, tailored storm tones, and cheerful yellow and blush.
Coordinated A New Day fat-quarter bundles bring together twelve related prints in each color story. They provide a practical starting point for quilting, patchwork, children’s sewing, accessories, handmade gifts, and smaller home-décor projects.
Visit the Blue Bee Studios Brand page to view every active pattern, available colorway, printable fabric option, and coordinated fat-quarter assortment.
View All Blue Bee Studios Patterns and Colorways
What Makes Blue Bee Studios Fabrics Distinctive?
- Artist-led visual storytelling: Natural forms and subtle metaphors give the collections an emotional idea as well as a decorative purpose.
- Professional creative direction: Sue’s advertising background brings clarity, composition, hierarchy, and confident color to each pattern and collection.
- Hand-created source material: Pencil drawing, paint, found natural objects, and textile elements contribute texture and individuality before the artwork is refined digitally.
- Professional licensing experience: Sue’s work across textiles and home goods supports patterns designed with finished products, scale, coordination, and practical applications in mind.
- Organic and structured balance: Painterly florals and flowing botanicals coordinate with geometrics, stripes, checks, plaids, and abstract textures.
- Complete color stories: Shared palettes make it easier to combine multiple patterns across quilts, rooms, garments, and accessory collections.
Project Inspiration for Blue Bee Studios Fabrics
Modern Quilts and Patchwork
Begin with a painterly floral, stylized botanical, or bold abstract as the focal fabric. Add smaller geometrics, stripes, checks, plaids, and textured coordinates for blocks, borders, binding, sashing, and backing.
A New Day fat-quarter bundles provide twelve coordinated prints within a single color story, reducing the guesswork involved in building a balanced quilt or patchwork project.
Apparel and Fashion Accessories
Print expressive florals, graphic coordinates, or flowing botanical designs on lightweight cotton, cotton sateen, linen, or stretch fabric for dresses, skirts, blouses, camp shirts, jackets, scarves, tote bags, and statement accessories.
Sue’s background in art licensing and product development gives the patterns a natural ability to translate from flat artwork into wearable, functional pieces.
Curtains, Bedding and Coordinated Rooms
Use larger floral or botanical repeats for curtain panels, Roman shades, duvet covers, coverlets, pillow shams, and upholstered headboards. Introduce related stripes, checks, geometrics, or plaids through cushions, bed skirts, accent panels, and smaller decorative elements.
Upholstery and Statement Accents
Blue Bee Studios patterns can bring artful color to accent chairs, benches, ottomans, dining seats, headboards, and upholstered wall panels. Select an appropriate linen blend, cotton duck, twill, sailcloth, velvet, or other décor-weight base based on the project’s intended use.
Pillows and Decorative Accessories
Pair a focal floral or abstract pattern with a quieter coordinate for pillow backs, piping, gussets, borders, or contrast panels. The collections also translate well to lampshades, fabric baskets, tote bags, storage accessories, table runners, and handmade gifts.
Table Linens and Entertaining
Florals, stripes, checks, and graphic coordinates can be mixed across tablecloths, runners, napkins, placemats, aprons, and chair pads. Golden and Sunny palettes create a warm, welcoming table, while Morning Mist and Open Sky provide a cooler, more relaxed direction.
Find a Blue Bee Studios Fabric for Your Project
Printed to Order on Your Choice of Fabric
Blue Bee Studios designs are available by the yard on 15+ base fabrics, allowing you to select the weight, texture, drape, and performance best suited to your project. Options include cottons, linens, natural-fiber blends, performance fabrics, and specialty textiles for apparel, quilting, bedding, curtains, upholstery, and accessories.
- Printed to order in the USA
- 1-yard minimum for fabric by the yard
- Multiple colorways available on individual product pages
- Coordinated A New Day fat-quarter bundles available for quilting, sampling, gifts, and smaller sewing projects
- Natural-fiber fabrics are steamed, washed, and dried after printing for a soft hand and durable, colorfast results
- Detailed digital printing preserves painterly marks, flowing linework, layered textures, clean geometric shapes, and subtle color variation
How to Order
- Browse the Blue Bee Studios Brand page and select a fabric design or coordinated fat-quarter bundle.
- For fabric by the yard, choose the colorway that best fits your project.
- Select the base fabric you would like us to print.
- Enter the number of yards needed and add the fabric to your cart.
Fat-quarter bundles are already printed on premium Cotton Quilt fabric and include twelve coordinated fat-quarter designs presented as one continuous three-yard piece.
Need help choosing a fabric? Compare specifications and recommended uses in Our Fabrics, order a Ground Fabric Swatch Kit , review our Frequently Asked Questions, or contact The Textile District for personalized assistance.
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